Each morning for the past two weeks I’ve been walking the same three mile river loop that hugs a small section of the Deschutes River. There’s been clarity in walking the same morning route, a kind of raw meditation in the repetition.
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Landscape photography is often not about finding the hidden spot, it’s about your vision of whatever is in front of you and how you execute it. Recently I was back in the Yosemite, which always feels like coming home to me. When a place touches you like this it will always have that warm enveloping feeling like coming home to a Thanksgiving dinner or seeing an old friend and picking up the conversation where it was left years before.
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These are the intimate times of being a nature artist, when being human fades to the background and what is left is a raw conversation with the landscape…
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I tested the initial Pyrocat HD 2-bath technique on a few rolls of exposed Kodak Tri-X I had already shot with. The results were quite interesting and definitely wetted my appetite to continue testing it…
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I’ve been using the same BW film and developer combination for 14 years; Kodak T-max 100 developed in Kodak X-tol 1:1 dilution. It’s what I tested when I was in school and it was tested for printing onto Ilford Multigrade IV darkroom paper.
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Do you hear that…
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Art is our universal language. It has no cultural boundary for it is the fingerprint of our shared humanity. It is a shared gift we all posses. We have long forgotten the struggles of the upper paleolithic peoples of Southern Europe; their societal, political or environmental hardships, but their art lives into the twenty first century…
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I challenge you to build a pinhole camera out of cardboard. Here’s a link to how to do it. I guarantee the process will make you look at photography in a different light and you’ll be more attached to the results than any of the iPhone images you took this week.
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Photography is the bratty little sibling of the art family. One of the only art mediums invented and driven by market forces rather than artistic drive. First portraiture, later snap-shots. Revolutionaries like Brady, Adams,Ray, Stieglitz, working on the fringes of both the photographic and art worlds developed it beyond that and into a means of deep expression.
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Chance favoring the prepared mind. Understand your camera, understand your film and your results will be more predictable!
Read MoreArt is object. Ideas are born, worked on, developed and in the end given life. But ideas alone are not art, they're only seeds. Art is many things, one of which is the intersection it exists between craft and idea
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Along the eastern plains of Mono Lake lies a sandy plain sparsely dotted with long dead shrubs.
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